daughters, when the marriage market exhibits competitive dowry payments and altruistic but paternalistic parents benefit from … having married sons live with them. By choosing uneducated brides, some parents can prevent costly household partition …

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we … examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the … decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional on marriage. We find that, in the absence of social stigma or legal …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … losses derived from the marriage. We have also found that the donor of an intergenerational transfer can behave in a …

legal protection to household producers at the margin between single status and marriage, we expect it to discourage labor …Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force … participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more …

The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US … abolished CLM over the period examined. Analysis based on Gary Becker's marriage economics helps explain why CLM affects couple …

on the administrative side of the university. There is no female marriage premium, and no partnership return to gay men …

bargaining are both essential for understanding these trends, and develops an equilibrium model of marriage and bargaining …. Calibration to US data suggests that the bargaining position of husbands has deteriorated with the closing of the gender gap in …

incompleteness in the marriage market and the assumption that the marginal gain to marrying someone rich is greatest for someone poor …